English Literature / Unit 12 ENL 1136 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Christabel
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The idea
Christabel is a long narrative ballad by Coleridge in two parts, the first reputedly written in seventeen ninety-seven and the second in eighteen hundred. Wordsworth advised leaving it out of Lyrical Ballads, and it was published, unfinished, in eighteen sixteen alongside "Kubla Khan."
In practice
A Gothic ballad left incomplete.
Where people slip
Like "Kubla Khan," it is a fragment.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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